The Picture Book of Quantum Mechanics

by Siegmund Brandt and Hans Dieter Dahmen

Book Overview

The aim of this book is to explain the basic concepts and phenomena of quantum mechanics by means of visualisation. Computer-generated illustrations in color are used extensively throughout the text,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387951415
• ISBN13: 9780387951416
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A ray of light

This book is totally excellent. This book sheds much light on quantum mechanics with its excellent graphical representations of the functions involved. The CD-ROM is also great. The companion book which introduces the computer software usd to generate many of these graphics is also great and brings a physics lab into your own room (well as far as is possible)! These books make the reader feel like a physicist rather than a recipient of some authour's bruised ego as the authour tries to confuse the reader by demonstrating 'mathematical prowess' by making their subject dull and unintelligible. This book is beautiful and inspiring and a must for anyone interested in quantum mechanics. The text contains a lot of detail, but the accompanying images make even the harder parts a joy to read. Since reading this book I have decided that a proper physics book is not simply a half-explained mathematical proof splattered on paper with accompanying problems that try to out-smart competing authours, but a good physics book is, like this one, about physics! Physics can be a very visual subject, so let's make it so! If more books were as well thought out as this one then we would have more first-class physicists!